Additional Reading for "Self-Reliance"

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Much of what Emerson wrote is available at the Gutenberg Project here.

Essays

"Nature"
"The American Scholar"
"Politics"
"Experience"
"Fate"

Emerson was also a poet.

You can see a full list of Emerson's works here.

about Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bercovitch, Sacvan. "Emerson, Individualism, and the Ambiguities of Dissent." South Atlantic Quarterly 89 (1990). [I haven't read this essay, but I have read a book by Bercovitch (Puritan Origins of the American Self) that was very good, so I'm assuming that this essay probably is too.]